Hmm, I perhaps didn't quite catch this. I thought having a generator would let you be less committed to it, as you wouldn't need to manually write all the init scripts you need.. ?

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nubinetwork 2 hours ago | parent [-]

Writing a basic init script is less intensive than having to learn the entire "schema" for both script formats, which you'd probably want to know if you were writing the generator.

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_flux an hour ago | parent [-]

Yes, but one only needs to write it once, and then everyone could use it. It could probably even be packaged as an official Debian package.

	▲	simoncion 33 minutes ago \| parent [-]
		> Yes, but one only needs to write it once... ...and then keep up with behavioral changes that the Systemd Project people introduce and load-bearing bugs that services end up relying on for lifecycle management. OpenRC service files are easy to write, and their schema is far far simpler than that of Unit files. [0] It's really not worth the effort to write and maintain an converter, if for no other reason than you need to understand the semantics of both systems' service files to double-check the results of the converter. [0] <https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48717056>